Adhesive re-enforce washer



(No Model.)

P. A. D'ALPE. ADHESIVE RE-ENFORGE WASHER.

PatentedFeb. 9, 1886..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS DALPE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ADHESIVE RE-ENFORCE WASHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,569,dated February 9, 1886.

Application tiled June 16, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS DALPI], a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladel phia and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and Improved Adhesive Reenforee IVasher, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a simple, economical, and efficient device for reenforcing or strengthening prescriptions and other papers which are kept on files and liable in use to be torn or worn where the file passes through them. To this end I provide a perforated washer made adhesive on one side, and, if desired, strengthened around its aperture with a metallic eyelet. The device thus prepared is readily applied to any part ofa paper-such as a druggists prescription before placing it on a file. The file being passed through the opening in the washer, the latter protects the paper from tearing, so that the prescription may be preserved for an indefinite period without danger of injury.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of my improved reenforce washer on an enlarged scale, and Fig.

II is a section of the same. Fig. III illus- (No model.)

The strengthening-washers made as above described are furnished in quantity,to be separately used and applied by the consumer as occasion may require.

This facility of use and the applicability of the improved device to loose papers of all descriptions which require sucha strengthening reenforce distinguish my invention clearly from the well-known re-enforce direction tags or labels, in which the label and the re-enforcing washer, which is applied thereto in the manufacture and subsequently punched, form an integral and inseparable part of the manufactured article.

By my improvement I placein the hands of the user a re-enforcing washer already perforated,which can be readily applied wherever it is required.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. An adhesive re-enforcing washer constructed with a perforated body, 1, and an ad hesive surface, 2, asherein described.

2. A re enforcing washer constructed, as herein described, of a perforated body, 1, of paper or other fabric, an adhesive surface, 2 and a strengthening-eyelet, 4.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS DALPE.

\Vitnesses:

CHAS. W INFIELD FOSTER, GHARLEs 'loMKINs HELLER. 

